Napa County Resource Conservation District

🌿🐝 It's Pollinator Week! 🦋🌼

We're celebrating the birds, bees, bats, butterflies, and beneficial insects that help keep our ecosystems healthy. 💚 This week, we'll be highlighting two local pollinator projects that are making a difference in our community, so stay tuned!

🌻✨ Want to help pollinators thrive? Even small actions at home can make a big impact:

🌼 Plant native flowers
💧 Provide a shallow water source for wildlife
🐝 Leave some natural areas undisturbed, especially during the dormant season (some insects like to hide in stems and soil during the winter!)
🚫 Avoid pesticide and herbicide use
🌸 Choose native plants that bloom throughout the year

📍 Did you know? Pollinators contribute billions of dollars to California agriculture each year by helping pollinate fruits, nuts, vegetables, and seed crops. 🌱🍓🥜🌻

Every flower planted helps support the pollinators that keep our landscapes productive, resilient, and beautiful. 🐝🦋🐦🦇

👉 What's your favorite pollinator to spot in the garden?

🌲 Join Our Team! Napa RCD is looking for a Forestry Specialist to help shape the future of forest health in Napa County.

In this role, you'll lead the planning, implementation, and management of impactful forest health and wildfire resilience projects. You'll help ensure projects follow forestry best practices, meet regulatory requirements, and deliver meaningful results for our forest ecosystems and communities.

🌿 Help build healthier forests.
🔥 Strengthen wildfire resilience.
🌎 Make a lasting impact on Napa County’s landscapes and communities.

Interested in joining our team? To learn more, visit https://napacountyresourceconservationdistrict.applytojob.com/apply/O6i0HEA6Nw/Forestry-Specialist-RPF-Or-RPFTrack?source=FB

💧 What happens when nature does the work for us?

At Huichica Creek, 70 acres of wetlands and floodplains are quietly preparing Napa Valley for floods, storms, and rising seas. 🌿

This free webinar will take you behind the scenes: see how water moves through the landscape, why this creek is such a rare opportunity, and how the project is helping nature and our communities adapt.

By joining us, you’ll get a closer look at this restoration effort and ways to be part of what’s next.

📅 When: June 2, 6-7 PM
💻 Where: Zoom – to register or to access the meeting link, please visit naparcd.org/calendar and click on this event for more details. See you there!

Join us for the 2026 Climate-Friendly Garden Tour on Sunday, May 17, 10am-4pm!

Explore water-wise gardens, share ideas, and connect with your neighbors doing this work. Plus, learn from local experts in four workshops:

•Napa Firewise- Firewise Landscaping
•UCMG- Soil Health and Avoiding Invasives
•City of Napa & a local landowner- Cash for Grass from a Homeowner Perspective

Last chance for $5 tickets: May 8! Then, tickets are $10 (or pay $10 cash at the door).

Come celebrate the beauty of water-wise spaces, get inspiration for your own water-wise transition, and learn how to make a difference with advice from the experts!

This year's hub is a new spot for us- Aldea Child & Family Services, right downtown! Their water-wise landscaping isn't what they're *usually* known for, but should be celebrated! We'll have friends there with information- like Water Division, and ! It'll be a party!

Visit NapaRCD.org/GardenTour2026 for tickets and information

So many thanks to all of you that joined us on this chilly and overcast morning for the Earth Day Napa Community Cleanup!! We met new friends of the human AND canine variety, picked up over 2,000 cigarette butts, saw lots of you that have been joining us for many years, and were inspired by the number of youth that came out to help us Keep Napa Clean! We also had a lot of groups that joined us, including but certainly not limited to: , Girl Scout Troop 10816, Target, , , Rotary Clubs, , , and so many more I know I missed! **If you were there and we missed giving you a shout out, let us know and share your photos!**

Special shout out to your Site Captains- they make this whole show possible, and haul very gross, dirty buckets in their personal vehicles all around town!

Thanks again for a lovely day of picking up trash, keeping our minds sharp by learning and remembering what goes in what bin, and spending time with our community!

Who’s joining us for tomorrow’s Earth Day Napa Community Cleanup? 🌎 This is our 18th year, and we’re excited to keep the tradition going with you!

If you’re still deciding where to go, consider the South Jefferson Wetlands. This site has been on our list since the beginning- not because it’s trashy, but because its location along the tidal Napa River naturally collects debris coming in from the Bay and washing down with the rains. There’s always meaningful work to be done.

The walk from the meeting place out to the river follows a dry, mowed path (thanks, Flood Control District!) and offers incredible views- birds, native plants, and wetlands in action. If the timing lines up, you might even spot volunteers across the river at Kennedy Park. 👋

We have 6 cleanup sites total, but South Jefferson is a great choice if you want a scenic, impactful experience.

Registration is now closed, but walk-ups are absolutely welcome- we’d love to have you join us!

Visit NapaRCD.org/EarthDay for the full list of sites.

The Climate-Friendly Garden Tour is less than a month away!! We've got lots in store... including FOUR workshops covering the Cash for Grass Program, Firewise Landscaping with , Avoiding Invasives at the Nursery, and Soil Health with our partners at . There's so much to share and we can't wait to see you there!

Tickets are on sale now and just $5 if you get them before May 9! After May 9, the price increases to $10.

Visit NapaRCD.org/GardenTour2026 for information and ticket sales!

Who can find the weirdest thing? Will it be you?** 👀🗑️

From rubber ducks to mystery dolls (careful at the end if you don't want to see a scary doll!) and everything in between- these are the kinds of things we’re pulling out of our waterways and neighborhoods. This weekend is your turn to join the hunt (and help us KEEP NAPA CLEAN while you’re at it).

🌎 Earth Day Napa Community Cleanup
📅 April 25
⏰ 9am-12pm
📍 6 Sites in Napa

Bring your friends, your family, your curiosity, and your best “what even IS THAT?” energy. Let’s see who discovers the strangest item, and make a real impact while we’re at it.

♻️ Gloves, buckets, grabbers, and good vibes provided
👉 NapaRCD.org/EarthDay for more info and registration

**Want a hint? The weirdest things are usually found at the South Jefferson Wetlands and Kennedy Park, right along the wide parts of the Napa River!